Maria Maier

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Maria Maier (* 1954 in Amberg ) is a German artist . Her work includes drawing , graphics , painting , photography , public art, and conceptual art .

life and work

From 1975 to 1979 Maier studied art education and art history at the University of Regensburg . After several years of teaching, she has been working as a freelance artist since 1992. Maier lives and works in Köfering and Regensburg . She has received awards in the form of international grants and art-in-building competitions.

Maria Maier's art is largely determined by drawing and the principle of collage. In spite of all the expansions that her way of working and her formal vocabulary have undergone over the years, linear elements always remain decisive. This also applies to her paintings on canvas and her collages. Since 2000 Maria Maier has been working increasingly with the combination of photography and painting. She combines photographic motifs with painted or drawn image fields. Sometimes these combinations are photographed again and painted over again. This leads to complex superimpositions of the image structures.

Maria Maier, Wanddialog 1, 2002, photography, painted over with egg tempera and mixed media, cardboard on wood, UV varnish, 100 × 70 × 1.5 cm
Maria Maier, ZR K - giving color 25, 2011, photography, painted over, mounted on Dibond, 50 × 70 cm

Maria Maier finds a large part of her photographic material on study trips and during her work stays in different places around the world. In addition to European countries, she also traveled to Burma, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, USA, Honduras, Belize, Cuba, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia.

The most important motifs of her work with photography are architectural elements, found objects in urban space and always deserted urban situations. During a working scholarship at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland in 2011, she dealt extensively with nature motifs, the colors and shapes of flowers and leaves.

The focus of Maria Maier's work is dealing with the phenomenon of time. This is indicated by catalog and exhibition titles such as “Poetry of Time”, “Zwischenzeit”, “Zeit-Symbiosen” and “ORTsZEIT”. Temporal aspects such as the emergence and disappearance of forms and structures as well as the different time dimensions of photographic and painterly image processes condense into artistic meditations on the concept of time. The decisive trigger for this thematic intensification was again the trips. "As the thematic aspect of 'time' gained a global meaning, pairs of terms such as proximity and distance, home and foreign (etc.) lost their actually opposing meaning."

In addition to her studio art, Maria Maier has also realized art-on-building projects and works in public spaces. For the conceptual project “Stadtzeit-Zeitstadt, Project Regensburg” from 1995, consisting of a graphic edition and an installation, she installed a total of 76 art panels on historical buildings throughout Regensburg's old town.

Maria Maier, KIRCHEN St. Ulrich, from: “City time - city of time. Project Regensburg ", 1995 (one of 76 art panels on historical buildings in Regensburg's old town)

In 2012 she won the art competition for the redesign of Bahnhofstrasse in Schwandorf with her project “Farbwegweiser” and in 2013 with her project “Our district - 41 municipalities under one roof” she won the competition for the expansion and renovation of the Regensburg district office (realization 2014/2015).

Quotes

“The Regensburg artist Maria Maier crosses the border between different artistic means of expression. She combines painting, drawing, collage and photography into a single picture. It's about rest and movement, time and space. Associative processes condense into an aesthetic whole. The artist has dedicated herself to the photographic search for traces. The photographic material collected in foreign landscapes and cities becomes a multi-layered album of memories and optical further-thinking in a serial way at home in the studio. "" In order to translate the real spatial relationships recorded in photography into artistic ones, a combination with painted or collaged elements. 'Collage' in the broadest sense of the word, ie the combination of image materials from different origins, is a principle that Maria Maier has applied in almost all of her work in recent years. The juxtaposition and superimposition of photography and painting or drawing results in a sometimes confusing interlocking of different temporal and spatial orders "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015 Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Latvia
  • 2014 Municipal Gallery in the Empty Bag, Regensburg
  • 2013 Sievi Gallery, Berlin
  • 2013 Königshain Castle District Office Görlitz
  • 2012 Upper Palatinate artist house , Kebbel Villa, Schwandorf-Fronberg
  • 2011 HLP Gallery, Wesseling / Cologne
  • 2010 ZS art Gallery, Vienna
  • 2009 Art Association Die Treidler, Frankenthal / Pfalz
  • 2008 Herzogskasten Stadtmuseum Abensberg
  • 2008 Kronacher Kunstverein, Kronach
  • 2007 L-Gallery, Moscow
  • 2007 Association for Original Etching eV, Munich
  • 2007 Anaïs Gallery, Munich
  • 2006 Sievi Gallery, Berlin
  • 2006 Josef Nisters Gallery, Speyer
  • 2005 Gallery Maria Kreuzer, Amorbach
  • 2004 Kunsthalle Wil , Wil / Switzerland
  • 2004 Josef Nisters Gallery, Speyer
  • 2003 Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 2003 City Collections Schweinfurt
  • 2002 Galerie Hélène Lamarque, Paris
  • 2001 Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York
  • 2001 Art Association Erlangen
  • 2001 Galerie Anaïs, Munich
  • 2001 Galerie Claudia BÖer, Hanover
  • 2000 Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria
  • 2000 Theuern hammer lock
  • 1999 Hofmeister Gallery, Massing
  • 1998 Maulberger Gallery, Munich
  • 1997 European Parliament , Strasbourg
  • 1996 Municipal Gallery “ Empty Bag ”, Regensburg
  • 1996 Pilsen City Gallery
  • 1995 Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Public collections

Works in collections (selection)

Works in public space (selection)

  • Aichach, Sculpture Field near Obi, 2002
  • Amberg, Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg - State Building Authority Amberg-Sulzbach, 2008
  • Kelheim, Catholic Parish Church St. Pius, 2013
  • Munich, Bavarian State Surveying Office, 1997
  • Munich, Landeszentralbank, 1996
  • Munich, Siemens Financial Services , 1999
  • Passau, University - State Building Authority Passau, 2003
  • Passau, State Building Authority Passau, 2003
  • Regensburg, Evangelical Hospital, 1993
  • Regensburg, Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy, 1994
  • Regensburg, installation throughout the city center - City of Regensburg, 1995
  • Regensburg, LIGA Spar- u. Credit Union, 1998
  • Regensburg, Klinikum - Universitätsbauamt, 1998
  • Regensburg, Sparda-Bank Ostbayern eG, 2000
  • Regensburg, Regional Court - State Building Authority, 2004
  • Regensburg, Tax Office - State Building Construction Office, 2006
  • Regensburg, Upper Palatinate Student Dormitory - Kulturell-Gemeinnützige Oberpfalz GmbH, 2011
  • Regensburg, District Office, 2014/2015
  • Wil, City Hall, City of Wil, 2004

bibliography

  • Maria Maier. Poetry of time. Exhibition catalog museums of the city of Regensburg. With texts by Helena Fenclovà, Erich Schneider, Herbert Schneidler, Andrea Brandl. Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-925753-48-6 .
  • Maria Maier. Time runs 1998. Regensburg 1998
  • Maria Maier. Meanwhile. With texts by Dietmar Preisler, Anna Scherbaum. Lappersdorf 1999, ISBN 3-931954-05-6 .
  • Maria Maier. Time symbioses. Photo collages 1995-2000 series of the Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria. With texts by Magdalena Kraemer-Noble, Harald Raab, Herbert Schneidler, Reinhold Mißelbeck , Helmut Wolf . Kümmersbruck 2000, ISBN 3-925690-45-X .
  • Maria Maier / Felix Weinold. ambivalent. Catalog. With texts by Thomas Eisen and Reinhold Mißelbeck. Monique Goldstrom Gallery and New York Art Fair. New York 2001
  • Sofi Hémon / Maria Maier. circulation: catalog. With text by Denis Brudna. Rouen / Hanover / Regensburg / Paris 2001
  • Maria Maier. LOCAL TIME. Schweinfurt museum writings. With texts by Joachim Haas, Andrea Brandl, Hans-Peter Miksch, Gabriele Uelsberg. Schweinfurt 2003, ISBN 3-927083-91-7 .
  • Maria Maier. Cuba, Cuba. With texts by Christoph Tannert, Harald Raab, Hans-Peter Miksch . Lappersdorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-931954-14-7 .
  • Maria Maier. Dislocated, displaced: photographic work. Published by the Upper Palatinate Künstlerhaus. With texts by Peter Lodermeyer, Heiner Riepl , Joachim Haas, Wolfgang Dersch, Werner Zeh. Schwandorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036209-5 .
  • Maria Maier. ColorTimeSpace. Exhibition catalog, selected works on canvas and paper, 2000–2014. With a text by Herbert Schneidler. Published by: Galerie Donau Shopping Center Regensburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816269-1-9
  • Maria Maier. Heyday. Exhibition catalog museums of the city of Regensburg. With essays by Gérard A. Goodrow and Reiner Meyer. Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-943222-17-3 .

Articles in magazines

  • Photonews , February 2001, December / January 2007/2008.
  • Das Münster - magazine for Christian art and art history. Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg: 4/2000; 1/2004, 2/2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Maier, Notes 2003 (unpublished)
  2. ↑ Press release of the Regensburg district of August 30, 2013
  3. ^ Harald Raab, Six German photo-artists at the Berliner Kunstprojekt. in: NYArtsMagazine , December 2, 2006, English version of the article on MutualArt.com
  4. ↑ Peter Lodermeyer, Maria Maier. Dis-placed . Exhibition catalog, ed. vom Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Kebbel-Villa, Schwandorf-Fronberg 2012, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain